Celebrate Bastille Day

NYC’s largest celebration of France’s national holiday. FIAF’s Bastille Day fête fills three blocks of the Upper East Side with French food, wine, fashion, music, dance, workshops, and more. Live music includes renowned French singer Gérard Chambre, Chloé Perrier & French Heart Jazz Band, Paris-based chanteuse Dahlia Dumont, and French Riviera band Les P’tites Ouvreuses. There will also be Joanna Wronska doing the can-can and feather dance, participatory art with French-Iranian performance artist Cocovan, miming by Cat Gasta, kids’ book workshops with Fly Away Books, champagne, wine, and chocolate tastings, the French Garden marketplace, and much more.

Champagnes from Besserat de Bellefon, Delamotte, Laurent-Perrier, Michel Gonet, and Pol Roger, and cocktails from Giffard will be served along with treats from Jacques Torres Chocolate, Ladurée, and Maman Bakery. The Avalon Jazz Band will perform live music. Learn More | Buy Tickets

Drawing on July 14 at 5pm on the Main Stage (60th Street & Park Avenue). You do not need to be present to win. Learn More | Buy Tickets

Côte d’Azur France Village

12—5pm60th Street, near Madison Avenue

Côte d’Azur Village will spotlight the famed south-east region of France. Presented by the Côte d’Azur France Tourism Board, along with 20 partners from the region, the Village will offer visitors special travel deals, gifts, and activations courtesy of Fragonard Parfumeur, les P’tites Ouvreuses, and Hotels.com/Expedia Group.

The FIAF Library will offer three playful and imaginative workshops for kids led by renowned French illustrators and authors. Workshops are presented in partnership with Fly Away with Books, a program of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy’s family program Kids Trail.

Renowned French singer Gérard Chambre, with Eric Breton at the piano, will perform French songs made memorable by singers like Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Yves Montand, Charles Aznavour, Johnny Hallyday, and others whose voices left their mark on France and the world. Performance presented in partnership with Pierre Cardin.

“After great success in Paris and around the world, I am delighted to bring Gérard Chambre’s show to New York for FIAF’s Bastille Day celebration.” — Pierre Cardin

5:30pmFIAF Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th StreetIn French with English subtitles

In this delightful comedy from Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, the duo behind the award-winning film The Intouchables, a wedding planner/caterer must pull off a magnificent wedding in a 17th-century French château while the celebration and his personal life descend into chaos.Learn More | Buy Tickets

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